When 4-Year-Old Kayla Is Asked If She Has a Brother

question 135

Multiple Choice

When 4-year-old Kayla is asked if she has a brother, she says, "Yes." When she is asked if her brother has a sister, she says, "No." Kayla's response is best considered an example of:

• A) centration
• B) irreversibility
• C) egocentricity
• D) animism

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Definitions:

Maintenance Rehearsal

A cognitive process involving the repetitive review of information to keep it in short-term memory.

Memory

The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, or previous experiences.

Signal Strength

A measure of the power level of a transmitted signal as received by a radio receiver or similar device.

Treisman

Anne Treisman was a cognitive psychologist renowned for her work in attention, notably the feature integration theory which describes how we perceive objects as wholes even when attention is distributed among the separate features.